Digital BW, The Print

> Even for free, this could easily turn out to be a bad deal for you.
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Just to throw in the other side of the story, I'm still getting excellent service from my old 7500.  Particularly with a hextone monotone approach with very light inks, these old workhorses can still make images that look great.  I'm personally using Eboni-6 in mine and very happy with it.  Jon Cone also has some Piezo solutions that I suspect work fine in these machines.

I've also printed with only 5 jets firing and display quality images can be made with 5 channels.

Of course, if the particular machine is a high mileage one, it might, indeed, be worth less than $0.  But good samples of these older machines -- when obtained for very modest prices -- can be good economical routes to large prints.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com